The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-01
The Meek's Meus.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1886.
DEATH OF GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN.


Senator from Illinois, died at his resi-
dence in Washington at three minutes to
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. His death,
which came with startling suddenness to
his family and friends, had not been IN |
expected to his physicians for some days.
The lurking tendency to brain complica- |
ton which had been present in greater |
or less degree, and constantly increasing |
in severity during his entire illness, had
prepared them to expect the worst. The
racking pain which he suffered during
the early days of his illness yielded to
treatment, but left him in weak and
exhausted condition. from which
HE NEVER RALLIED
and upon which the fever preyed with
increasing violence until the hour OF his
death. After the last midnight, his pulse
grew weaker and weaker, and at A o'clock
Sunday morning his condition was such as
to cause great fear of his immediate death.
After this he rallied somewhat, and at the
consultation, which was held at 8 o'clock
that morning, his pulse was found to be
somewhat stronger, but his general con-
dition was not such as to give any hope
of ultimate recovery. DR.. Baxter relieved
DR.. Hamilton at the conclusion OF the
consultation, and continued in constant
attendance until the Generals death. The
physicians met in consultation at ] 30 p.
M. when it was apparent that the patient
was rapidly sinking, and could live but
q few hours.
THE LAST MOMENTS.
Az o'clock the General revived suffi
GENTLY to recognize his wife, who had
been at his bedside night and day during
his entire illness. As she spoke to him
he looked up into her face and all pres
emit knew that he recognized her. This
was the last manifestation of conscious
ness. He then YEARLY closed his eyes
and sank again into lethargic sleep from
which he never woke.
While the public had been aware for a
week or more that General Logan was
confined to his room with rheumatism,
many even of his most intimate friends
were, as late as Saturday afternoon, I'M
suspicious of the serious character of the
attack, and to the masses the announce
ment in Sunday morning 8 papers that the
statesman lay at deaths door, brought a
shock of sorrowful surprise. All day
long the carriages of sympathizing call
ers have occupied the space in front OF
Calumet place, while hundreds of pedes-
trians of all walks in life have climbed
the hill upon which the Logan mansion
stands, to ask if it were true that all hope
was past. Among those who thus active
ly expressed their grief and sympathy
were Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Manning, Senators Ransom
and Walthall, General and Mrs. Cockrell,
MIR. and Mrs. Bancroft Davis, General
Malone, Senators Platt, Mitchell and
Eustis, Congressman Hit, Of Illinois,
and Symes, of Colorado; General and
Colonel Sheridan, Professor and Mrs.
Bell, Senator and Mrs. Payne, Justice
Matthews, Senators Harris and Whit
thorne, Senator and Mrs. Miller, Senators
voorhees, and Blair. and Congressman
Burrows and Townshend.
AT THE BEDSIDE.
Intimate friends gathered with the
prief-stricken and almost frantic rela-
tives about the bedside, while in the
spacious hall and parlors below sad
faced throng remained in hushed expect
ancy. The stihed sobs of the wife and
children and the inarticulate utterances
of the dying man, were audible at times
throughout the mansion. At five min.
utes before three, DR.. Baxter came out of
the sick room and said to one who was
waiting for intelligence, " Simply say he is
dying" Then the voice of prayer at the
bedside rose above the sobs of the
stricken mourners, and with its end end
ed the life of the warrior-statesman.
Among those at the bedside of the dying
man were Senator and Mrs. Cullom and
daughter, General Sheridan, Senator and
Mrs. Cockrell, General Raum, Congress
men Henderson and Thomas, of Illinois,
and Mrs. Thomas; Senator Miller and
wife; Congress nan Symes, of Colorado;
DR.. Baxter, General Henry Strong and
Daniel Shepard and wife, of Chicago,
and the Generals private secretaries,
W. B. Taylor and Albert Hall.
At the head of the bed knelt Mrs. Logan,
one arm encircling her dying husbands
neck and the hand of the other stroking
his forehead. At her side were John A.
Logan, Jr., and the Rev. DIR. Newman.
Opposite there were the daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, and her husband, and George A.
Logan, the Generals nephew.
I" The scene," says DR.. Baxter, )" was one
of the saddest that l have ever witnessed.
All present were deeply affected. The
grief of Mrs. Logan and her children was
pitiful in the extreme"
THE DISEASE.
General Logan's system was very SEN
sitive to weather changes of particular
kind, and he has often been heard to re-
mark in half-iocular way that he be-
heved he could accurately foretell the
coming of a snow storm. The seeds of
his disorder were sown during the war,
his first attack OF rheumatism having fol-